Biomarkers of milk fat and the risk of myocardial infarction in men and women: a prospective, matched case-control study | The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition | Oxford Academic

https://academic.oup.com/ajcn/article/92/1/194/4597302


Conclusions: Milk fat biomarkers were associated with a lower risk of developing a first myocardial infarction, especially in women.


Eva Warensjö, Jan-Håkan Jansson, Tommy Cederholm, Kurt Boman, Mats
Eliasson, Göran Hallmans, Ingegerd Johansson, Per Sjögren, Biomarkers
of milk fat and the risk of myocardial infarction in men and women: a
prospective, matched case-control study, The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Volume 92, Issue 1, July 2010, Pages 194–202, https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.2009.29054

Dietary Carbohydrates Impair Healthspan and Promote Mortality: Cell Metabolism

http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/fulltext/S1550-4131(17)30562-4


The prospective cohort study, named PURE, found that in >135,000 participants from 18 countries, nutritive carbohydrates increase human mortality, whereas dietary fat reduces it, requesting a fundamental change of current nutritional guidelines. Experimental evidence from animal models provides synergizing mechanistic concepts as well as pharmacological options to mimic low-carb or ketogenic diets.

Dietary Carbohydrates Impair Healthspan and Promote Mortality

Ravichandran, Meenakshi et al.

Cell Metabolism , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , 585 - 587

Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study - The Lancet

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(17)32252-3/fulltext

"Interpretation

High carbohydrate intake was associated with higher risk of total mortality, whereas total fat and individual types of fat were related to lower total mortality. Total fat and types of fat were not associated with cardiovascular disease, myocardial infarction, or cardiovascular disease mortality, whereas saturated fat had an inverse association with stroke. Global dietary guidelines should be reconsidered in light of these findings."

Associations of fats and carbohydrate intake with cardiovascular disease and mortality in 18 countries from five continents (PURE): a prospective cohort study - The Lancet, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32252-3

PLOS ONE: Man the Fat Hunter: The Demise of Homo erectus and the Emergence of a New Hominin Lineage in the Middle Pleistocene (ca. 400 kyr) Levant

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0028689

Abstract

The worldwide association of H. erectus with elephants is well documented and so is the preference of humans for fat as a source of energy. We show that rather than a matter of preference, H. erectus in the Levant was dependent on both elephants and fat for his survival. The disappearance of elephants from the Levant some 400 kyr ago coincides with the appearance of a new and innovative local cultural complex – the Levantine Acheulo-Yabrudian and, as is evident from teeth recently found in the Acheulo-Yabrudian 400-200 kyr site of Qesem Cave, the replacement of H. erectus by a new hominin. We employ a bio-energetic model to present a hypothesis that the disappearance of the elephants, which created a need to hunt an increased number of smaller and faster animals while maintaining an adequate fat content in the diet, was the evolutionary drive behind the emergence of the lighter, more agile, and cognitively capable hominins. Qesem Cave thus provides a rare opportunity to study the mechanisms that underlie the emergence of our post-erectus ancestors, the fat hunters.

Citation: Ben-Dor M, Gopher A, Hershkovitz I, Barkai R (2011)
Man the Fat Hunter: The Demise of Homo erectus and
the Emergence of a New Hominin Lineage in the Middle Pleistocene (ca. 400 kyr)
Levant. PLoS ONE 6(12): e28689. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0028689

The Secret to Heart Health Is Avoiding Sugar | Marcelle Pick, OB-GYN N.P.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marcelle-pick-rnc/the-secret-to-heart-healt_b_5925892.html

Everything You Know About Fat Is Wrong - The Daily Beast

http://thebea.st/1ni3z2b

Everything You Know About Fat Is Wrong

Think a low fat diet is the key to health? Think again.

Butter vs. Margarine (Plus 10 Healthy Fats We Love!)

Butter vs. Margarine (Plus 10 Healthy Fats We Love!): dies Aren’t Mean

The Sad Saga of Saturated Fat by By Jeff Volek and Steve Phinney 14 May / 2013

Here’s a fascinating paradox.  Over the last 4 decades, nutrition policy makers have increasingly exhorted us to eat less saturated fat.  As a result of this unremitting message, the general population believes this single nutrient, if not overtly toxic, will at least cause wide-spread bodily damage.  Additionally, foods that naturally contain saturated fat (e.g., beef, pork, dairy, eggs, and tropical oils) have been branded ‘unhealthy’.   The paradox here is that as the drum-beat against saturated fats has increased, the actual science supporting this message has fallen into shambles.  So here’s our question:  should we all just be good citizens and swallow this advice, even if the science behind it no longer pasts muster?

Two generations of researchers have tried to prove that eating saturated fat causes heart disease.  Rather than growing stronger, as would be the case if this hypothesis were rock-solid, increasingly the scientific data is painting a picture more akin to ‘low fat Swiss cheese’ (i.e., not much there besides the holes). Take, for example, multiple recent meta-analyses of large populations followed carefully for decades, examining what they eat and what they die of [1-4]   All show no consistent association between dietary saturated fat intake and risk for heart disease or death from all causes.  In fact some of these studies show just the opposite – an inverse association of dietary saturated fat intakes and atherosclerosis or stroke.  Interestingly, they also suggest that one’s risk for a coronary event increases when dietary saturated fat is reduced and replaced by carbohydrate.

Here’s the problem as we see it.  By continuing to provoke fear about the harmful effects of saturated fat, the likely response is that people will seek out foods low in fat and higher in carbohydrate. And in reality, that’s exactly what appears to be happening.  According to a government-funded survey [5], Americans have decreased their consumption of saturated fat and replaced those calories with an even greater amount of carbohydrate.  This dietary flip-flop of trading away saturated fat and replacing it with carbohydrate has occurred in the same time interval as rates of obesity and diabetes have rocketed skywards.  This might be coincidence, or more likely it’s an extremely unfortunate unintended consequence.

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